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Life after PhD for Researchers on Ageing and Later Life
The Centre for Social Gerontology (CSG) in collaboration with the Emerging Researchers in Ageing (ERA) group of the British Society of Gerontology, hosted a one-day conference in the Moser Research Centre for 30 students, post-doctoral researchers and staff.
The event was organised by the CSG's current postgraduate students to honour their immediate predecessors, give a boost to the work of ERA and celebrate recent doctoral successes.
Returning to present their doctoral research were former postgraduates Dr Jackie Reynolds (now in the Creative Communities Unit at Staffordshire University), Dr Karan Jutlla (now a Lecturer in the Association for Dementia Studies at Worcester University) and Dr Chaz Simpson (now a Research Fellow in the Centre for Research in Primary and Community Care, Hertfordshire University).
Jackie spoke about her research on 'ageing, creativity and social capital'; Karan about her study of 'Sikh carers of older people with dementia', and Chaz about his work on 'older people's involvement in regeneration'.
The Centre's visiting postdoctoral fellow, Dr Anu Leinonen from the University of Jyväskylä, Finland, presented her research on 'working carers of older people'.
The day was opened by Professor Sheila Peace, Open University, who drew on her extensive research experience and her current TiKL (Transitions in Kitchen Living) project to discuss the challenges of inter-disciplinary working.
A CSG lunchtime seminar, given by Dr Debbie Price, King's College, critiqued the government's financial capability agenda and exposed the way it both serves, and fails, neo-liberal economic policies.
The day was rounded off by a panel discussion on career development. In addition to Keele students and staff, delegates came from Nottingham, Bristol, Chester and Liverpool. A similar day is planned for Spring 2012 (at Brunel University) and there will be further ERA events linked to the Annual Conference of the British Society of Gerontology being hosted at Keele from 11-13, July 2012 (see: http://www.britishgerontology.org/.
The event was funded through the new Researcher Development and Transferable Skills Training funds in the Research Institute for Social Sciences. For further details on the funds and how to apply, please contact the HUMSS Faculty Research Office.
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